While technology is the part many eyes will gravitate toward in operationalizing AI, the people and process elements are actually the most challenging.
Intel To Set Its FPGA Unit Free To Pursue Its Own Path - The Next Platform
Maybe Intel chief executive officer Pat Gelsinger has spent too much time at EMC and VMware. Because now Intel wants to spin out the FPGA business that is a small but bright spot in its datacenter and edge computing businesses. It never made a lot of sense that EMC, the maker of traditional storage arrays
My work brings me though a lot of software correctness techniques, things like type theory, test-driven development (TDD), and formal methods. The surrounding communities all have the same problem: they can’t get people using these techniques. They all ask “Don’t people care about correct software?” To which the insiders usually answer “programmers don’t care about correctness, they just care about shoveling out garbage to make money!”
I’ve heard this from every single community I’ve explored, many of which are in direct conflict with each other.
Values of Convenience: Why Do We Not Make Life Better For Others? | Hazel Weakly
I was asked recently for my thoughts on a wonderful article about software correctness, human convenience, and flossing, and I ended up dumping out an entire...
Trying to manage software multitenancy to the same level as infrastructure multitenancy results in high spending on instrumentation and increases code complexity.
Davide's Code and Architecture Notes - L4 vs L7 Load Balancer
If you need to handle lots of incoming requests, you should manage the incoming traffic by balancing the load across different servers. You should consider adding a Load Balancer: it’s a layer of abstraction that handles requests, availability, and security in a centralized place.
"Making Hard Things Easy" by Julia Evans (Strange Loop 2023)
Julia Evans is a software engineer and writer based in Montreal who loves investigating weird bugs and helping people learn how computers work. She runs Wiza...